Eric Trump muffs number of firefighters killed in call for people to respect 9/11

Presidential son Eric Trump, though unsure how many firefighters died on 9/11, is certain that invoking the terrorist attacks is politically incorrect.

Trump, speaking Wednesday morning on “Fox & Friends,” seconded the sentiments made during the Sept. 11 memorial service by Nicholas Haros Jr. — whose mother died while working on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower. Haros complained that politicians and the media were wrongly invoking the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil.

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“People don’t like the lunacy anymore,” said Trump. “People don’t like the hysteria. There are sacred things in society, whether they be children, whether they be 9/11, whether they be our great heroes — the 348, roughly, firefighters who lost their lives that day.”

The FDNY famously lost 343 firefighters on 9/11.

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Haros, one of the 9/11 relatives chosen to read the names of those killed during the terrorist attacks, broke from the script at Ground Zero to ask for a separation of 9/11 and politics.

“This year network commentators said the President’s performance in Helsinki was a traitorous act as was 9/11,” Haros said Tuesday. “And last week a senator attacked a Supreme Court nominee and called him a racist for comments after 9/11.

“Stop. Stop. Please. Stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props for your political theater.”

The President’s 34-year-old son also cited the actions of by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) regarding Brett Kavanaugh during Senate hearings on his approval. The Jersey politician released Kavanaugh emails regarding racial profiling in a post-9/11 United States.

“You see what Cory Booker said in the Kavanaugh hearing, you see what so many others have said,” said Trump. “Stop. (Haros is) right. You have to stop. There have to be limits.”